for working sources outside the White House to nail down all major aspects of President Donald Trump's long-awaited tariff plan 45 minutes ahead of the pack. http://bit.ly/2tV3U5p
scored a significant scoop and offered the AP’s audience unprecedented insight into the Fulton County special grand jury that considered whether former President Donald Trump illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election through sophisticated open records reporting and strong source cultivation.Read more.
exclusively obtained documents from a former Cambridge Analytica insider revealing what an election watchdog group claims was illegal coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and a billionaire-funded pro-Trump super PAC. The cache of previously unreleased emails, presentations and slide decks was provided to the AP by Cambridge Analytica’s first business development director, Brittany Kaiser. Burke’s story detailed how Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated behind the scenes with the political action committee, and provided rich detail on how some key 2016 staffers are involved in the president’s current re-election campaign.In a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center says the now-defunct British data analytics firm violated election law by ignoring its own written policy, blurring the lines between work performed for Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Make America Number 1 political action committee, largely funded by billionaire Robert Mercer. https://bit.ly/3dINJvqhttps://bit.ly/31tUnAy
leveraged preparation, source reporting and probing questions to set the standard for coverage of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis.AP’s White House crew was already juggling news about a new Supreme Court nominee, revelations about Trump’s tax records, a chaotic presidential debate and controversy over the president’s stand on white supremacy, when word came Thursday night that top adviser Hope Hicks had tested positive for the coronavirus. The reporting team sprang into action to develop the story and explore the implications for Trump and those around him. By 12:30 a.m., they’d pushed the story as far as they could, and the White House gave no guidance on when test results for the president and first lady would be known.Colvin was still up, though, when Trump tweeted just before 1 a.m. that he and Melania had tested positive. The APNewsAlert moved at 1:02 a.m., and a full writethru packed with context – drawing heavily on AP’s preparedness for just this scenario – was out a minute later, giving newspaper editors around the country time to frantically remake the next day’s front pages. Over the next three days, through two dozen news alerts and more than 100 writethrus, the three reporters collaborated on sharp reporting and probing questions to tell the remarkable story of a president in both a health crisis and a credibility crisis of his own making. The team’s work broke news and dominated play throughout the weekend. https://bit.ly/3d6bJIqhttps://bit.ly/36GP04thttps://bit.ly/3ntDyiEhttps://bit.ly/2SyroGX
for anchoring expansive and informative coverage of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial – just the third such trial in American history. Coverage of the trial in all formats showcased the AP’s unmatched ability to meet the call of history with sharp storytelling, delivered with speed but hanging on substance. The AP’s mainbar provided a definitive account of the trial for more than three weeks running. And as lawmakers weighed the ultimate judgment on a president, journalists in Washington carefully reported the arguments in real-time while churning out informative sidebars, fact-checks and explanatory guides. The final story alone, on the Senate vote to acquit Trump, appeared on more than 200 newspaper front pages across the country, and hundreds of websites. https://bit.ly/2UQ9EcK
for a forensic investigation into how the theory of Ukraine’s interference in the 2016 election evolved from a vague mention into a major talking point for Trump and his allies and now stands at the heart of the president’s impeachment trial in the Senate. https://bit.ly/3718XR9
for revealing the pain of people whose relatives were killed in actual lynchings, as a debate raged among politicians and pundits over President Donald Trump’s use of the word “lynching” to describe the impeachment inquiry.
for an all-formats package that broke news about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Donald Trump has quietly converted a network of rural prisons in Louisiana into a major hub of migrant detention.https://bit.ly/35r23Ehhttps://bit.ly/2IVaTk3https://bit.ly/2nUX4ux
for exclusively obtaining Customs and Border Protection memos that showed how the Trump administration was carrying out a program that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases play out, including the instruction that border agents explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America. https://bit.ly/2HvWomX
for tracking from South America a source at the White House who confirmed that President Trump on at least three occasions last year pressed his aides in private about the possibility of invading Venezuela. https://bit.ly/2KVFl0r
for exclusively reporting that a letter from the Trump legal team to special counsel Robert Mueller called fired FBI Director James Comey “Machiavellian,” dishonest and “unbounded by law and regulation.” https://bit.ly/2ukovhs
for reported exclusively that Robert Mueller's team of investigators interviewed Tom Barrack, a confidant of President Donald Trump who ran his Presidential Inauguration Committee. https://wapo.st/2I3LnL6
for arranging for a lawyer representing five news organization to attend a hearing and persuade a judge to preserve public access to the court proceeding involving Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, an intervention that led to the surprise revealing of the name of another of Cohen’s clients – Sean Hannity. https://bit.ly/2Fmp5Ox
for obtaining the first published western interview of Natalia Veselnitskaya. The Russian lawyer, with reported links to the Kremlin, was at the center of a famous meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. She told AP she has not yet been called for questioning by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. https://bit.ly/2HYgQNR
for breaking news that the Trump administration’s new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos was stacked with trophy hunters. https://usat.ly/2IvcHyh
for breaking the news that recently fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had written contemporaneous memos after his meetings with President Donald Trump, similar to the records kept by his former boss James Comey. http://trib.in/2uatdAK
for an exclusive all-formats package eight months in the making. The AP team illuminated how Ivanka Trump’s business practices and lack of any reaction to the arrests of three investigators had very real, human consequences in China. http://bit.ly/2nCWygJhttp://bit.ly/2FFp3BI
for an all-formats, multi-language story on advocates warning young illegal immigrants not to be out of the country when Donald Trump is sworn in as president for fear they may not be allowed back in. http://wapo.st/2gxFWBu
for securing exclusive, all-format access to the under-construction Trump golf course in Dubai, and reporting the political, economic and security implications of the club opening just weeks after the U.S. inauguration: https://apnews.com/da3e4d047aaa44e8b1b40…
for breaking the news that a man promoted by President Donald Trump as an authority on voter fraud, and who was the source of a claim that 3 million illegal immigrants voted, was himself registered to vote in three states during the 2016 presidential election. http://apne.ws/2kNMmij